Field, Hannah (nee Armitage) (1863 - 1945)

Born in Qld, 1863, died in Elsternwick, Vic, 8 January 1945,

One of at least three children, to Jeremiah
Downs Armitage (d.1919) and Mary Ann nee Mottershead.
The family established a mango orchard on the property 'Eimeo' near Mackay. In 1894, Hannah married Edwin
Richard Field (1865-1944), a mining engineer at Maytown.
Edwin's father, Edwin Field sr, was a mining manager in
Maytown.

Hannah collected MEL specimens on the upper
Palmer River, 1895.

She and Edwin had one daughter in Qld,
and then three more after returning with her husband and
his parents to their home state of Victoria.